A convict who was seriously injured when he plummeted five stories trying to bust out of a maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania said he was pushed by his partner-in-crime, a suspected serial killer, it was revealed yesterday.

Scott Bolton, 39 never made it beyond prison walls. But his accomplice, accused serial killer Hugo Selenski, 30, managed to scale down a rope of 12 knotted bed sheets to freedom after the duo used a broom handle to pull out a prison bar window.

Bolton, who suffered broken bones and life-threatening internal injuries, told a prison guard and others that he was pushed by Selenski, but did not reveal if it had been on purpose or accidental, according to prison warden Gene Fischi.

Both convicts were wearing prison-issued civilian clothes at the time of the breakout from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

Selenski’s lawyer said his client may have fled because he had been targeted by inmates as a racist murderer.

Selenski, suspected of killing five people whose bodies were found buried in his back yard, confided to his lawyer just hours before his escape that some black prisoners were angry at him for killing two drug dealers who were black.

“He made some remarks that, ‘Some of the fellows are looking at me differently now,’ ” his lawyer, Demetrius Fannick, said.

“He said they were marking him because he had killed black drug dealers.”